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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Sea Air launches flights

Sea Air wet-leases B737-300 to commence services

Croatian start-up airline Sea Air, which delayed its launch on five different occasions, commenced flights this morning, operating its inaugural service from Osijek to Frankfurt. The airline has wet-leased a Boeing 737-300 aircraft from the Maltese aircraft management, charter, sales and maintenance company Maleth Aero. The eighteen year old jet features an all economy class cabin and has the capacity to seat 133 passengers. In a statement, the start-up said, “Sea Air will operate as a low cost airline, however, this will not reflect on our service. Our passengers are our guests and will be treated to an experience where safety and efficiency is our priority”. According to the airline, passengers will be served cold meals and beverages on all flights at no additional cost and will have the opportunity to check-in twenty kilograms of luggage free of charge.

Last week, Osijek Airport issued a strongly worded statement chastising the airline for delaying its launch since May. It said, “Sea Air’s actions have created big problems for us, as we were unable to fulfil projects with other companies in order to allow the airline to base an aircraft and hire at least ten staff. As a result, we no longer support this project”. Sea Air said its prior delays came as a result of operational issues and the inability to lease an aircraft. Its B737-300 arrived at Osijek Airport only yesterday afternoon. The airline hopes to attract passengers from Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sea Air has revised its planned operations and will now run services from Mostar and Sarajevo as well, in addition to Osijek. The airline will operate four weekly flights from Osijek to Frankfurt and three weekly services to both Munich and Stuttgart. Furthermore, flights between Mostar and Osijek will run three times per week and will connect onwards onto services to Germany starting August 31. On the other hand, services from Sarajevo to Kuwait City will operate three times per week from August 30. Flights from Mostar will be run for Sea Air on behalf of Ukrainian airline AeroJet, while services between Sarajevo and Kuwait will be operated by the Georgian carrier Luftline. Sea Air has previously said it sees great potential in the Bosnian market.

More airlines, more opportunity, more choice, more freedom to travelling. Life is all about that... Who don't like that fact is big bed luck. Peace to all who fly. Irrelevant who, where they flaing. Be happy. Chance to all. Be fair. Good luck!😊✈🌏☀. Rodney Son & Co. Kraljevo✈Sydney.

Well, leasing, paying, maintaining a boeing instead of a sufficient and efficient prop must be evidence that they either have enormous unknown funds in the background or that they are somewhat delusional and suicidal. I know an atr could not fly the kuwaiti route but that cant be viable enough to justify flying around whole week with a boeing.

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LIVERY OF THE WEEK

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Australian low cost carrier Jetstar has unveiled a special livery on one of its Airbus A320s to promote the first country-specific version of the board game Scrabble. Manufacturer Mattel has included a list of local slang in its official glossary that are also featured on the jet, including words such as "Bonza", "Mollydooker" and "Devo". The A320 also includes the airline's name spelled out with Scrabble tiles. The jet is being used on both domestic and international routes and features Scrabble branding inside the cabin as well

GLOBAL AVIATION NEWS

Lufthansa, easyJet favourites for Air Berlin

Lufthansa Group and UK-based easyJet have been selected as preferred bidders for the main assets of the insolvent Air Berlin, the German carrier has confirmed. Lufthansa also submitted a bid for Air Berlin's Austria-based subsidiary Niki, which could be integrated into its LCC arm Eurowings. Air Berlin administrator Lucas Flother had planned to keep these decisions confidential until September 25, after Germany’s general elections. Air Berlin said in a statement that the creditors’ committee will continue talks with the two carriers until October 12 with the aim of selling Air Berlin's air transport assets. Talks with bidders interested in other assets will continue in parallel. Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr said at a media event in Frankfurt that Lufthansa’s bid for Air Berlin's assets is focused on securing the 38 Airbus A319/320s it wet leases from Air Berlin. The Star Alliance member is also interested in a further 20 to 40 aircraft, without creating antitrust concerns. Those 38 wet-leased aircraft carry about 1.000 passengers a day, mainly for LCC Eurowings, and Lufthansa’s priority is to keep that operation stable. Lufthansa would need around 3.000 new employees as it seeks to build market share following the exit of Air Berlin, which has 8.000 employees. However, Lufthansa is not interested in Air Berlin's long-haul routes because it said Eurowings can grow this segment on its own. Air Berlin will end long-haul operations September 25.
Source: ATW